IIRC this is/was in the video forum and we even had someone translate part of it ...

The gist was that these are cops in Moscow or somewhere doing a training exercise, and the guy doing the search thought it'd be hella funny to test out his sucker-chop-the-perp-in-the-kidney technique on his comrade.

On the same note, the former USSR has a tradition of trying out unarmed combat techniques on unwilling human "test dummies," typically prisoners. The KGB and military called these unfortunates kukla (dolls).

I feel so much better knowing that the physical abuse I suffered in last night's Systema class has a solid cultural history.

On the same note, the former USSR has a tradition of trying out unarmed combat techniques on unwilling human "test dummies," typically prisoners. The KGB and military called these unfortunates kukla (dolls).

That's messed up, but seems preferable to having the Japanese trying out armed combat techniques on prisoners.